Quotes About Knowledge

Only in this connection of knowledge and social action can education generate the understanding... necessary for the continued existence of democracy.

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself

We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

There's no keeping anything from you, is there, Devil-face?" she demanded, rolling about in her seat almost gaily. "Now, then, how did you know that?

knowledge alone is not powerful even when the dots are interconnected, but humility can take you far away

knowledge is the most powerful thing on earth, harvest it and use it wisely

O miserable condition of man, which is not imprinted by God, who, as he is immortal himself, had put a coal, a beam of immortality into us, which we might have blown into a flame, but blew it by our first sin; we beggared ourselves by hearkening after falses riches, and infatuated ourselves by hearkening after false knowledge.

Every woman is a science; for he that plods upon a woman all his life long, shall at length finde himself short of the knowledge of her.

The World is a great Volume, and man the Index of that Booke; even in the Body of Man, you may turne to the whole world.

In the post-modern academic world, truth is often alleged to be relative.

So many Americans felt that their neighbor had no right to know more than they did.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.

Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.

I am in a sorry state, for I do not even know what I do not know. —St. Augustine

The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.

I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak…

The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.